There are times that social media is totally worth the price of admission. Yesterday was, in fact, one of those days.
Here's how it all unfolded.
Several years ago and against all odds, feminist author J.K. Rowling emerged as one of the staunchest and most courageous defenders of femininity and women's rights against the cultural onslaught of men "identifying" as women. Though her arguments have always been sound, well-reasoned, and defined by unassailable logic and common sense like this:
… she has been subjected to the most uncharitable and nasty attacks by those who believe anything women can do, men in dresses can do equally if not better. The frenzied trans activists have even invented a term for Rowling and those like her: TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist), and have promoted the renunciation and boycotting of Rowling's massive Harry Potter franchise.
That call has been taken to extremes by some, including this young woman who goes by the name "Emo Hag" online:
Just so we're clear, our Hag friend had undoubtedly spent thousands of dollars on an expensive and elaborate Harry Potter tattoo "sleeve" extending the full length of her arm. But because it turned out the author of that fictional story has a viewpoint that our tattooed woman doesn't share, she felt that she owed it to humanity to have it removed or completely covered up.
So she spent thousands of more dollars to essentially "black out" the Harry Potter drawings, again, all because Rowling sees an issue differently than her. That isn't sane behavior. We don't all see things the same way, and we don't need to. For a crowd that loves to talk up its commitment to diversity, you will likely never encounter a more narrow-minded, insular, and reactionary group.
But that's when things got good. Wading into Emo Hag's timeline came the hero of our story, a gentleman named "Gene Parmesan," who responded to her announcement beautifully:
Oh man. That's game-set-match right there with one swing of the racket.
It's a brilliant point, actually. Emo is posting her exasperated sense of relief that she was finally able to "black out" a picture she had etched into her skin many years ago before she'd had a chance to think better of it. You know, kind of like Chloe Cole and so many other detransitioners and desperate-to-be-detransitioners lament about taking puberty blockers and hormones to "change their sex."
Mr. Parmesan has done great work in exposing the inconsistency in Ms. Hag's position. But the best part? The coup de grace? The icing on the cake? She didn't even pick up on it.
Talk about a stunning lack of self-awareness. Unsurprisingly, it didn't take long for Emo Hag to protect all her tweets and make her account private.
While that's not a bad idea, I guess I'm hoping for something more.
Maybe all of us recognizing that poisoning children with chemicals and disfiguring them isn't something we're going to be able to just "black out" one day?
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